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Impoverished boys study under street lamp
Under a dim street light at Grass Trace, Flanagin, brothers Mark Halbal, 14, and Aaron, 11, study at nights.It’s not an ideal place for the boys to beat their books, but for their poverty-stricken...
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Recognise pan tuners—Diaz
Pan Trinbago’s president Keith Diaz says pan tuners should be recognised as natural treasures and should be held in the same regard as Michelangelo and Michel-Jean Cazabon.He was speaking during his...
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Million-dollar toy drive scrapped
The nationwide million-dollar Christmas toy drive—a brainchild of former prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is no more. Persad-Bissessar will only be focusing on her Siparia constituency this...
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A Fancy Jab bears her pain after husband gunned down
Valdeen Shears-NeptuneNo matter what colour she wears, she commands fearful respect. A pathway is often cleared for her entrance and many look on with smiles, tinged with fear. Even police officers...
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Deosaran in favour of selecting local CoP
Former head of the Police Service Commission (PSC) Prof Ramesh Deosaran says it would be good if a local person could be found with the required competence, experience, integrity and professional...
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Afra resigns from JCC
Joint Consultative Council (JCC) president, Afra Raymond, has been forced to resign after an internal rift with two council members. Raymond resigned with immediate effect over a month ago after...
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Even after PP spends $1.6 to $2bn: School violence goes viral
Thirty-one months after losing her 14-year-old son Renaldo Dixon to school violence, Camille Taitt is still trying to come to terms with his death. Taitt, 34, admitted that Renaldo’s passing will...
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King warns against Govt’s plans: Recipe for eating up more foreign exchange
Economist Mary King says the Government intends to spend an unprecedented TT$63.1 billion and none of it looks like it is designed to boost the country’s exports or reduce its import bill. Instead,...
View ArticleState ‘advanced’ towards action
The Government is remaining tight-lipped on its next move concerning Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran and whether it can continue to work with him following Prime Minister Keith Rowley’s stinging...
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Car plunges into river
A Chaguanas man died yesterday after the car in which he was an occupant ran off the Uriah Butler Highway and crashed into the cable barrier at the Guayamare River. Police identified him as Clyde...
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Brothers slam into pickup on M2 Ring Rd
Hansraj Roopnarine, 47, of Endeavour, Chaguanas, died on the spot yesterday when the Mitsubishi Lancer, driven by his brother, Roland Roopnarine, slammed into a pickup truck on the M2 Ring Road in...
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Former PNM finance minister: Declare reason to fire Jwala
The Government must declare its reasons if it wants to fire the Central Bank Governor says former finance minister Conrad Enill. He added that the governor and the Government cannot be at loggerheads...
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Two more murders, toll reaches 396
A few footsteps away from where Roger Romaine was shot dead in May, the man accused by relatives of killing him was shot dead yesterday morning. Micheal Matthews, 57, of Fazal Avenue, Penal, was gunned...
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More than a sno-cone man
Wesley Basdeo pedals his bicycle cart slowly through the quiet streets of Felicity every day, except Saturdays. An indelible part of the area’s daily life, villagers call him “sno-cone man.”Basdeo, 38,...
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Let retrenched ArcelorMittal workers operate Point Lisas plant—Abdulah
Leader of the Movement for Social Justice David Abdulah is suggesting that workers who were retrenched by steel giant ArcelorMittal last week be allowed to operate the manufacturing plant in Point...
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Parang in the 21st century
My name is Stanley Jennings and I am a parrandero. But when I’m onstage, my sobriquet is Albertos Alvarales Consuelo. Stanley Jennings is mellow. But Albertos is cocky.I’m born and raised in the West...
View ArticlePolice powers of search, seizure
Darius Emrith Student, Hugh Wooding Law SchoolThere are two circumstances where a police officer’s powers of search and seizure may arise: (i) in effecting an arrest; and (ii) in effecting a search...
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Cop among two killed in Aranguez
A police constable and another man were gunned down this morning along the Aranguez Main Road. Police investigators are currently on the scene. According to a police report, at about 5.30 am the...
View ArticleJwala ready to challenge potential dismissal
Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran will likely challenge any unjustified move against him, it was confirmed yesterdayAnd at least one big business enterprise — Massy — which was threatening legal...
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Two Defence Force officers in court
Two members of the protective services appeared before different Port-of-Spain magistrates yesterday. A Coast Guard officer charged with unlawfully killing a child and a soldier charged with driving...
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